Play has finished for the night. The clock shows 86 players remaining, meaning the average stack is 27,000. The dealers are racing off the 25-value chips, and the players are bagging and tagging their stacks. They have a day off tommorrow before returning on Wednesday, when the two flights combine.
Join us from the Hilton Hotel in Prague from 12pm tommorrow when Day 1b of the PokerStars EPT Prague begins.
Adrian Koy and Maciej Mazur look like they are the two biggest stacks. Full chip counts from today's play will be posted before play starts tommorrow.
Markus Golser
With a board reading , Markus Golser bet out 5,500 from the small blind into a 9,500 pot. After a small deliberation, his opponent called with , but Markus had for the set to take down a nice pot to finish the day. He now has 26,000 in chips.
There will be five more hands played on each table before play finishes. This system, which was employed also at the EPT Dublin, means that there will be no stalling towards the end of play.
Luigi Rizzi
By the river the board read , and Daehling bet 13,000 into a 16,000 pot. Rizzi decided to just call with for a full house.
Daehling, disgusted, turned over for a smaller full house, but was surely happy that his opponent decided not to raise him at any point after the flop.
John Flanagan moves all in preflop from the big blind, over a 3,000 early-position raise. The original raiser folds and John shows . "How else do you play them?" asks the Irishman. He is now up to 30,000 in chips.